The story starts with Michael “Mike” Wazowski when he was six years old and visiting Monsters Inc., a scaring company, applying to help Monstropolis with energy, with his school. While on this field trip, they meet Frank McCay, an employee on duty. As they watch him enter the human world to scare, Frank fails to notice that Mike had sneaked into the room before he closed the door. After Mike watches Frank’s scare performance, Frank comes out of the room, and followed by Mike. With Frank figuring out what had happened, he scolds Mike, but eventually perks up and reassures him. The teacher then scolds him, but Mike is happy and states he wants to be a scarer when he grows up.